Musings :: Moments :: Memories
A couple of months ago, I started a challenge to blog every day for the rest of 2023. So far, I have managed to do so and today is Day 60. As a reminder, my intentions for the last 100 days of 2023 were: to adorn my home with seasonal decor - our autumn decor… Continue reading Mid Challenge Review
Autumnal - of autumn time This is probably the least surprising given my love of the season in question but I also love the word itself and how it feels in the mouth when you say it. There is a pleasant, calming hum that suits the meaning perfectly. The word derives from the Latin 'autumnus'.… Continue reading Five Words I Love
As I work through The Artist's Way (the writing course book by Julia Cameron), one of the suggestions for creating a life as a writer is to take weekly Artist's Dates. These are outings done alone to somewhere interesting, creative, or inspiring: a gallery, a museum, a garden, etc. Tomorrow, I will be taking myself… Continue reading An Artist’s Date and a Pivot
We didn't make it to a fireworks display this year. Partly this is because of our theatre trip (which Rich ended up missing because we didn't want to leave Harper alone with all the fireworks) which coincided with our town display, and partly because tonight is the last day of the half-term and we had… Continue reading Remember, remember
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros - a fantasy romance with dragons. I haven't read much fantasy this year but this felt very easy to get into with excellent world-building. I read it very quickly. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak - so so creepy! I devoured this in a day (half-term reading for the win!). A… Continue reading 5 Books I Have Loved This Year So Far
Yesterday was the first day of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and for the first time in years, I plan on starting a new novel. Kind of. Since I have stalled so many times with my current work in progress, I have decided to change things up. I am going to be using a couple… Continue reading A New Project
This afternoon the kids needed to get out of the house so we visited the library in Warwick. It has just recently been renovated and it is so lovely in there. There was a Halloween trail which Austin got stuck into straight away. Evelina chose her teen fiction and settled down to read while we… Continue reading Library Day
As someone who loves to read but also loves to keep track of things, I enjoy logging my reading in a number of ways. The most faithfully updated log is on goodreads.com - this is where my reading challenge is set and so long as I log a finished date for every book, it will… Continue reading How I Log My Reading
I really believe that creativity is an essential aspect of human life. I didn't used to think so. In fact, for many years I told myself the story that I wasn't remotely creative. All through school, I didn't believe I could be creative because I didn't really understand what creativity was. Now I think that… Continue reading Fearing Creative Failure
The new season of Loki was released last week so we decided to rewatch season one in preparation. I am so glad we did because a) I had forgotten so much of it and b) it is SO flipping good. Like SO GOOD. Tonight we watched the first two episodes of season two and they… Continue reading Loki Love
Notes From My Day 